My research interests lie at the intersection of historical linguistics and computational & experimental modeling. I employ these approaches to answer questions about the mechanisms of language change in data both old and new.

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Some of the topics I am interested in include:

• Indo-European Languages (specifically Slavic)
• Phylogenetics
• Language Evolution
• Iterated Learning
• Change-in-progress
• Agent-based Models
• Model Transfer

• Reconciling Historical Data and Modern Computational Models in Corpus Creation
  Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 3, Article 54. 2020.
  [proceedings]

• Stressful Conversions: Internal Derivation within the Compositional Approach
  Joseph Rhyne and Andrew M. Byrd
  Tavet Tat Satyam: Studies in Honor of Jared S. Klein on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
  Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press. 258-68. 2016.
  [paper]

• Deriving collectives in the history of Slavic
  East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC) XXXIX
  2020
  [handout]

• Reconciling Historical Data and Modern Computational Models in Corpus Creation
  Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2020
  2020
  [poster]

• Contrasts in Case Usage under Negation in Old Church Slavonic
  The 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC)
  2019
  [slides]

• Don't be 'a' Negative Nancy: GofN's origins in definiteness
  The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2019)
  2019
  [poster]

• The South Slavic dialect continuum: Political division driving linguistic change?
  The 4th Annual Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia
  2017
  [slides]

• Counting back through history: extrapolating historical phonetic forms with computational methods
  With Betsy Miller
  The 84th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 2017)
  2017
  [slides]

• Quantifying the Comparative Method: Computational approaches to historical linguistics
  The 3rd Annual Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia
  2016
  [slides]

• Stressful Conversions: An Analysis of Internal Derivation within the Compositional Approach
  With Andrew M. Byrd
  The 26th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC)
  2014
  [slides]

• A MARVEL-ous Homecoming: Creating conlangs for Captain Marvel
  Department of Linguistics Allumni Colloquium, University of Kentucky
  2019
  [slides]